sociopaths are a result of bad parenting

What is a sociopath?

Person with a pesonality disorder that is antisocial and often manipulative

characteristics

• Charismatic and good charm
• Lying
• Lack of remorse and shame
• Intelligent and quick thinkers
• Incapacity for love and empathy

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• No hatred - just lack of feelings
• Living a double life
• Anybody can be a sociopath

Two sides

• Sociopaths are a result of bad parenting
• Sociopaths are a result of inherited genes

Bad parenting

• Often sociopaths have rough past
• Divorce
•       Absence of one parent and failure of another
• Abuse and neglect
• Missing feeling of love

Inherited genes

• Intricate twin study
• Different brain functions
• Interviewing of criminals

Intricate twin study

• Monozygotic (identical twins)
•       Placed in different environments
•       Still showed same traits
• Used repetition and circular reasoning
•       Restated things in different words

Brain functions

• Inherit genes that affect brain functions
•        Cause sociopathic behavior
• Slows down or blocks brain signals
• Doesn't correctly send or return brain signals    
• Imagery - sending mail example

interviewing of criminals

• No violent or sociopathic backgorunds
• Loving and caring parents
• Anecdote
•       Killer kept his victim's corpses in closet/under floorboard
•       Fair childhood

Now back to bad parenting

• Physical abuse
• Neglect and divorce
• Harsh environmental factors that trigger genes

Physical abuse

• different brain development
• lower responses to distress calls, fear, and threats
• lower attention span and difficulty with emotions
• emotional detachment carries out to adults

Neglect or divorce

• stays with one parent - other parent turns "bad"
•       failure to show love to them
• children mimic parents
•       fights stay in their subconscious mind
• can lead to neglect - no love, care, attention  

environment

• gene claim - environment affects genes
• depends on how they channel the genes
• brain funciton claim
• pregnant mother's environment affects genes
•       good choices will have positive effect

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Works Cited

• https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9NWhnl5XSxzZFJRMTZoRkpUVFE/edit?usp=shari...